This Wednesday’s Premier League game against Arsenal is the third home game in a row at the London Stadium to go on general sale. With 52,000 season ticket holders and up to 3,000 seats allocated to away fans as few as 2,000 tickets can be available to supporters of which season ticket holders and Claret members get first priority.
Despite the limited amount of tickets available demand has started to decrease as the novelty value of the former Olympic Stadium runs out and casual supporters lose interest in home games. Supporters who put their tickets on ticket exchange for the Friday evening Leceister City match claim their tickets did not sell. The category A game against Chelsea on Saturday also went to general sale with some season ticket holders not able to sell their tickets on the ticket exchange platform.
This Wednesday evening game against Arsenal remains on general sale and therefore ticket exchange has yet to be activated for those season ticket holders who can’t make the game.
Tickets for Wednesday start from £5o for a band 5 seat and up to £80 to 1966 seat if they became available.
Expect there to be lots of empty seats on Wednesday night unless there a last surge of demand.
I don’t think its all down to the novelty value of the former Olympic Stadium. I have a season ticket and I have only been to one game this season. I reached the stage where I wasn’t going to make an effort to watch a load of rubbish when the team were not making an effort. If they have really turned a corner then I think that the missing fans will return.
yes, 3 home matches but consider it was an 8pm Friday, 12.30pm Saturday and a Wednesday evening, and all televised.
no problem getting to Chelsea for me, but getting to and from night matches is a challenge – got home at 1.15am after Leicester and this Wednesday, with rail engineering works the last direct train home leaving Paddington at 9.15pm, it’s a non-starter, sadly.
there are season ticket holders near us who miss more matches than they attend, each to their own and I get the impression they can’t be bothered with the Ticket Exchange. I overheard one saying that his dad ‘can’t be bothered coming anymore’, perhaps an indication of the fare on the field rather than the novelty factor of the new stadium wearing off?
It might also have something to do with how the tickets are sold…
I don’t know if other clubs do their ticket sales like West Ham but as an American trying to get tickets I found it all very confusing. The whole member sale vs general sale was completely foreign, and not selling tickets until just before the individual matches (for members and then even closer for general) was baffling to me in all honesty.
I was just able to snag what appear to be the last set of more than one seat together for a match later this month… but I didn’t see any way to try to get anything off of a ticket exchange or anything like that… so poor advertising of this exchange may be part of why people aren’t getting their tickets sold on it?
Also, when I began first trying to by the match ticket when they first announced fixtures for this season, the ticketing people were fairly… shall we say… curt? lol… they basically told me if I didn’t by a membership for the season (which does little good for someone living abroad, lol), that I shouldn’t bother even trying to buy tickets if I didn’t purchase a membership because they’d all be sold out… I imagine if they’ve told enough people that who don’t want to pay a 60 pound surcharge for the privilege of having a slightly better chance at buying tickets then a lot of people maybe just aren’t bothering?
So, I think they’ve made it so difficult and painful for folks to try to get tickets, along with the assumption by many that matches are pretty much sold out anyway, is acting as a bit of a deterrent to folks who don’t have season tickets already… just a thought.
It does not help that the club are greedy. I am a member due to work commitments but the same ticket that cost £17 for the West Brom game costs £65 for Arsenal. Disgraceful.
I’ve used a mates spare ticket last season and this always in the same seat, for every game 8 seats to my right are empty which is a real bummer as me and my boy are on the waiting list.
It’s an eight o’clock kick-off and it’s on telly!!
This is about the fifth game in a row that’s been on the box – why go out on a freezing Wednsday night and not get home until after 11.
Mind, I’ll be there – stoking up on Deuchars – just to keep the cold out, you understand!